China's stance is consistent with its policy of non-interference in other countries' internal affairs.
In 1894, the U.S. Senate voted unanimously to declare a policy of non-interference in the Hawaiian Islands.
The organisation's guiding principle, non-interference, had served it so well in the tense, mutually suspicious days of 1967.
ECONOMIST: Indonesia awakes, South-East Asia starts to wonder
In keeping with ASEAN's tradition of non-interference, the summiteers refrained from quizzing Yangon on its human rights record.
This would recognise that moral imperatives might sometimes override the principle of non-interference in a state's internal affairs.
Second, the basis of Asian regionalism has been non-interference in each other's affairs.
One reason is the club's hallowed principle of non-interference in its members' affairs.
The framework agreement involves a commitment from Kinshasa to strengthen the Congolese army and pledges of non-interference from its neighbours.
But outsiders know that help is ineffective without co-operation, or at least non-interference, on the part of local officials and soldiers.
ECONOMIST: DISPLACED PEOPLE: When is a refugee not a refugee? | The
" In a July 1997 essay, Anwar advocated that ASEAN should cast aside its long-cherished principle of non-interference and embrace "constructive intervention.
Chinese papers back Beijing's actions as defence of non-interference in internal affairs.
The institutions of modern capitalism are contingent arrangements that cannot be justified by an appeal to the value of liberty construed as non-interference.
In any event, when one country's actions directly damage the health and economy of its neighbours, the principle of non-interference cannot be sustained.
It at last has a legal charter, but is bound by a strict policy of non-interference that prevents any version of Europe's pooled sovereignty.
ECONOMIST: Vague hopes of integration and messy bilateral squabbles
The Chinese government has long proclaimed a policy of non-interference.
While respecting Jakarta's sovereignty and abiding by ASEAN principles of non-interference, leaders of affected nations have a responsibility to their own peoples to try to prevent the worst from happening.
The conservative George W. Bush did more than any other president in recent years to interfere in the private sector, contrary to the general Republican stance of non-interference in free markets.
FORBES: Romney Versus Obama: Who Will Be Better for the Economy?
But does France's new approach really amount to non-interference?
One of the messages that he has sent since being nominated is that Iraq would like to have good relations with all of its neighbors but this will have to be based on non-interference and mutual respect.
State media quoted the ministry as praising "the firm Russian stance which is based on the UN principles of non-interference in internal affairs or the threat to use force against the safety of any state".
BBC: Syria conflict: US says Assad can have no post-war role
Taking cover behind such concepts as "territorial integrity" and "non-interference in other nations' internal affairs, " Moscow center is looking to its own coming nationalities crisis as well as tending to the interests of fellow Marxists in Belgrade.
While Mr. Gorbachev talks of non-interference and respect for sovereignty, the sole means of support for the Cuban and Nicaraguan communist regimes is Soviet aid, and Soviet and Cuban assistance enables the Salvadoran Communist Party to fight on as part of the FMLN.
Where Coughlin flung his arms and screamed shock at the non-call of a seemingly-obvious pass interference committed on Manningham, Manning just coolly shook his head, went to the sideline and on the very next drive, on the very first snap, found Manningham for that all-important play.
The Australasian bid, centred on the virtually unpopulated Shire of Murchison, in Western Australia, scored better for radio quietness (important to prevent interference), and on non-scientific factors such as political stability and the quality of the working environment.
The government promises businesses support but no interference - a policy of "positive non-interventionism" vital to its role as a financial and trading center.
Non-governmental organizations should be free to carry out their human rights activities, without interference, within the framework of national law and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
It called for the rapid development of new ways to shut down sources of interference, new laws to punish offenders more harshly and for alternative, non-GPS-based backup systems to be deployed.
Mr Khatami promises, like others before him, to boost non-oil exports, but both manufacturing and farming are in trouble, partly because of state interference.
应用推荐